Savannah morning news. [volume] (Savannah) 1868-1887, 1887-03-14
FARM AND STOCK NOTES.

Young horses that have not been accus.
toned to hard corn are very subject to
lampas. Softer diet should replace corn
when lampas appears. The bowels should
be kept OPEN. This can be done by giving
food in tue form OF bran mashes. Laxa.
tive food is what is wanted.
The white-leaved and weeping lndens
are among the most useful lawn trees for
our climate. They are hardy and iniuri.
GUS insects and destructive diseases ap-
pear to pass them by; ana, while their
growth is quite rapid, the foliage of each
is singularly beautiful and tenacious.
A bean crop usually pays well and ire
quentiy better than most farm crops.
There is always good market for them,
and the planting, cultivation and har-
vesting can be attended 10 when it does
not interfere with the other products,
which is great advantage TO farmers.
A North Carolina farmer has silo built
on top of the ground OF heavy plank. 1t
has double walls, four inches apart, filled
with earth to exclude the air. The ensi-
lage is covered with boards, and the boards
covered with earth, an ordinary root keep
ing of the rain. 1t is 13Xl6 teet and cost
only $50.
Another wheat insect, the wheat bulb
worm, is SAID to be sometimes as destruc.
tive as the Hessian fly and to be com
monty confounded with it by wheat grow
ers. A third brood OF this species also
was discovered in midsummer wheat, so
that the same measures which will de-
stroy the fly will apply to this as well.
The wool clip OF other competing coun-
tries is always a matter of interest. A
recent report of the American Consul at
Buenos Ayres makes the clip OF last year
from that port $4,000 bales short, with
probably larger shortage this year.
Floods aud cold winters and fatal dis
eases have been serious hlnderances to
the wool industry.
No matter what class OF sheep are fed,
whether it be mature sheep or lambs for
fattenine, or ewes for early lamb raising,
the profit can come onIy from the amount
OF growth as compared with the food con-
sumed. While much depends upon the
selection OF sheep and OF the food used,
success or failure is very largely depend
ent upon the characteristics OF the man
placed in charge.
A practical apiarist, in relation to water
for bees after flying time, says: Il have
frequently observed chips OF cell-cappiRg
distributed all the way through the pile
OF dead bees IN the bottom OF the hive and
on the bottom board. showing that the
bees were suffering Tor water when they
began TO die. Perisbing from thirst day
by day the cluster dWlndles until, mere
handful being left, they succumb to the
cold"
The evil effects OF ergot are said to be
rarely seen save in animals led on dry hay
In the winter season, and they may be
said to be quite unknown on farms on
which sufliciency of roots are raised for
winter feeding. They are especially COM
mon In winter when the water supply is
frozen up, and it is only broken up once
a day, that the stock may take meagre
supply Of the chilling beverage. The
remedy would seem to be in raising and
feeding roots and supplying good water.
Many carefully conducted experiments
have proved beyond doubt that young
animals pay much better for feeding than
do those which have long passed their
years of growth. If this fact were more
generally realized there would be fewer
old animals kept aud farmers would
change their stock much oftener than has
been their practice. Many buyers have
already learned better than to ever pur-
chase an old COW or pair OF oxen, because
they know that no gain in growth can be
obtained, only gain IN condition, and
this at a cost fully equal to all it will
bring when the animal is again offered for
sale.
Cream rises almost entirely Ia falling
temperature. MIX should be from 30 10
100 degrees when set for the cream 10 rise
aud then gradually cooled down 10 90 de-